The Meat Puppets September 13, 2007

Of all of the bands that made SST Records a towering force in the American underground during the mid-1980s, the Meat Puppets lasted the longest. Their success stemmed from their ability to draw from punk rock’s fast and free-spirited sense of experimentalism and mix it with their own brand of bluesy classic rock, high and homespun psychedelia. Rise to Your Knees is the first album of new material to bear the Meat Puppets name since 2000, and the first in a dozen years to reunite guitarist/singer/main songwriter Curt with his brother, bassist and co-founder Cris Kirkwood. The 15-song album boasts the same visionary fusion of complementary contrasts that originally endeared the band to a large and loyal audience in the 1980s, proving that the Meat Puppets are continuing to redefine the parameters of American indie rock.

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